Re: Can't read last cluster on drive?

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From: David Harley
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 00:00

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David Longley (David@longley.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: I've  had  a problem on a few machines (some IDE and  some  SCSI) 
: which  makes me suspect a virus. Scandisk reports that  it  can't 
: read  the last cluster on the drive .. I have ended up having  to 
: FDISK and reformat. I scanned with DR SOl and Nortion and neither 
: detected anything.. 

I see this quite often on systems with large disks partitioned into
two. I wouldn't personally trash a drive because of a trivial 
SCANDISK message: it's a very limited tool. Run something more
powerful like NDD as a diagnostic, but be careful if it actually
detects a possible problem.

--
David Harley
D_Harley@iname.com 
http://webworlds.co.uk/dharley/
"Opinions are free: advice is free: consultancy costs...."

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From: harley@europa.lif.icnet.uk (David Harley)
Subject: Re: Can't read last cluster on drive?
Date: 1999/02/12
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